Back to my HObbylne Vintage trains.
I finally got my CONOCO tank car in a video with my play worn C&O FM H12-44. When you viewed and heard info on the soundtrack, I left out the fact that the cars seen all are originally ready to run with HObbyline split Kunkle couplers and brass wheeled trucks. The CONOCO tank is different in that I have never found it to have been released. I used the same trucks and couplers on it as the other cars have.
The CONOCO tank is seen twice in the 1954 catalog, and 4 times in the 1956 catalog. This car if released was not done in any large numbers. Mine is a HObbyline tank car from a Shell tank car kit and lettered using a Champ Decal set HT-53. The main car number provided by Champ is the same as seen in the 1956 catalog.
I used my phone camera to make the video and I am very pleased with how clear the video is. I placed the video on Youtube. This is a very good Video and you should view it Full Screen.
frank
https://youtu.be/cvIrjRrWgig
Is there anyone out there who also collects HObbyline Ho trains from 1953 to 1957? Those are the only years they were in business.
Plains are to run a HObbyline set like the set #462. A much larger Royal Blue than Hobbyline released is in the plaining stage. Their set #462 had a combine and three day coaches. This was pulled by Twin FA-1 locos with 8 wheel drive, very capiable of handling the 4 cars it was pulling. Between my Pennline and Varney cars that match in size and type the original HObbyline car I can put together a longer train doubling the cars to 8 or more. At a eight car minimun a full baggage will be added to leed the consist with three other new cars tail ending this train. 1 dinner , 1 pullman, and a observation on the very end. I am painting a Trainminature pair of FA-1, FB-1 which are both powered to match in the paint style done by HObbyline for their set 462. Thinking about and doing it is two very different things. This is a we will see.
Here is my HObbyline repaints now. The blue is lighter than I want it to be. Testors dull coat has a way of darkaing lighter colors. They, HObbyline only had the B&O name on their cars. No number or anything else is seen on them. I may change that for my set.
I now have the HObbyline B&O passenger set #462 Royal Blue. Just it seem I have to post the photo somewhere else, then I dont know what to do. So no photo of set #462 B&O Hobbyline UNcataloged passenger set that I have in its original box.
Excepting the Thomas and the Trainmaster, those photos take me back to the layout we used to set up when I was a kid. At one point we did use that same scenery paper material, though our skirting was a brick pattern paper type thing - more like a light and flexible cardboard. Didn't have any Marx HO though
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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toptrain I can't transfer a photo directly from my computer.
I can see the photo just fine, and the set looks excellent.
Congratulations on the beautiful find.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
In Vintage Ho most old timers like myself through the years has compiled quite a number of trains and sets made by Marx. All Marx with the exception of their battery powered train sets were made in the USA. The battery ones were made in Japan. I added to my collection this week with a Marx/Allstate (Sears) set. 9941. The set includes a NYC Hudson locomotive, a Erie flat with a load of two 1957 Chrysler seadans. Another flat with a load, this one a Lehigh Valley flat and it has a wood load. To help retain the wood load side were added that appear as substancial wood board construction. Mine is black with yellow letering, In a box somplace in my attic is the same car but colored green. A black and white New Haven box car is encluded with a Souther Pacific Gondola. The gondola's purpose to run with the New York Central Crane car also provided with this set. Tail ending the freight set is a New York Central Caboose. You will have to use only my graffic description of this like new beautifull set in its original weathered box that shows it age but has protected this early 1960 train set admirably because I can't transfer a photo directly from my computer. See how this works a photo from a forum.
HObbyline set #425 "The Hilltopper"
A set powered by Hobbylines FM H12-44. All axels are powered on the loco. I cant get photos to post anymore. For some reason Flickr links wont open. I am here to share what I have and if I can't there is no reason to be here.
Now this one does open.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30431536@N03/49572353597/in/album-72157710242700546/
Ulrich had some of these if I remember right. Check out Ho Seeker for reference and Ebay for the item itself.
I picking up again from around 1979. I'm shooting for the period between 1955 and 1967. Unfortunately, a lot of the vehicles and roadside kit aren't available. I'd love to find a milk tanker (single or twin axle) from that period but so far all I've found is a Walther set from the 1990s. And most of my rolling stock is literally from that period, including a 1956 Revell SW7 in UP colors.
Hi I have a number of old trains made By Hornby Dublo from the sixties before the original Hornby went bust.
None of the really collectable ones good thing since they are part of the use it items.
I also have a and I know nothing about other than it works a Varney steam switcher upgraded with a brass whistle and bell this was a deliberate purchase for a 9 X 5 layout that was to be the original Gorrey and Dapheted (spelling) upsized.
I have some of the Roundhouse DG&H and G&D pasenger and freight cars as yet un -built.
Not sure when the Roundhouse was manufactured. I don't consciously look for older trains and only buy it if I like it and it is going to be used on a planned layout.
If it doesn't get built and a layout that it doesn't belong on is built it runs on that no point having them if they don't get played with that's where the true value is. regards John
I would consider Aristo, they did some oddball locos in the early days.There may be some pictures in Sutton's The Complete Book of Model Railroading, mine's not accessible right now. Perhaps advertised in old issues of MR.
The cab, frame, and cylinders of the New Haven #60 look exactly like the super piece of junk sold by Life Like, they just called it the Tea Kettle. But it had a square tank, not a round one. Even the colors of that model are the same, including the background of the number decal.
I don't think the one I had even made a full hour of run time before it died.
--Randy ( end of copy)
I've always thought that vintage trains were easier to operate, and maintain. Some of my personal favorites in my roster are,
These locos I would suppose are some of the easiest to maintain, which makes me into vintage model trains. No pics available, due to a technical difficulty (it's not not knowing how)
"Your never too tall to play with trains"
-Liam
Backmans SD45 would not be my choice for a good loco but they made so many that most were reliable. Lima's 0-4-0 was a long lived good steamer. Some of them were made without the l Lima name on their bottom and wound by in different forums " Identification Station". Not much you could say about Athearn Geep 35 and S-12. They get the rabbit with the drum award for relieability. Keep- en clean and they keep going. Lionel's Scout, now I always being a HO modeler have noticed the sheer number of them showing up at train shows in good apearance and running condition is common. I kinda remember them being also made in Tin-Plate. That name, Lionel Scout, has been around a long time.
Frank
Nice looking equipemnnt. I absolutely have to figure out how to do pictures on here. I managed to pick up some very nice old-old stuff lately: a 1938 walters gondola, a diecast International Alco FA-1, a pair of Hobbytown EMC E-7s with motors and trucks but no frames, a huge box of Ideal Cranes - some never put together, and a huge pile of old Comet car parts.
Now I have a chance to do something I wanted to do for years. I'll try not to pass it up. Here is what I was plaining when building the first section of ths new layout.
As it would happen the next week the auction had a box set 466 the Fronteirsman. No one want it so I got it. The pair of FA-1 locos are excelent as are the cars. The box is in bad shape and didn't completely protect the cars and one of the trucks came apart and a axel is lost. I replaced it with a sprung Varney truck.
Now for a little more HObbyline HO from the mid-fifties. I finally have Western Pacific FA-1's for some set photos. The motor and other parts are missing from the power unit which is beat up pretty good, but I am really happy to at least have this set for posed photos.
A guess would to Silvine because that is who sold the B&O #25 side tanker, and the boxes #62 and #60 came in were the same as the Silvine box. Also all 3 are made by New One and the box may be a standard New One box. But a guess isn't a fact. A picture in a catalog, magazine, or sales flyier would be convincing. Also anything in writing, picture, or photograph.
That saddle tanker is a real survivor, Frank. It's unfortunate that it can't be identified, but do you have any guesses?
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Well back to my HObbyline HO trains . Here is my Passenger and Freight cars. I have a couple more coming a pair of ACL blue goldolas', and another southern box car, a HObbyline yellow gondola, a DSS&A gondola and unknown flat car.
Here is the Video
https://youtu.be/y99kV1xK_BM
toptrainfright trains
Fright train?
Sorry, but it´s Halloween, so I could not resist!
Happy times!
Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)
"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"
Here are two Vintage HO fright trains running made up of old vintage cars. Maybe you will recognize some.
Randy, The square tank is called a side tank, the round tank is a saddle tank. You could not be more correct when speaking of the plastic Life Like Teakettle. The little reduction gear would fail and lose teeth and Life Like just kept on making them by the thousands, because they sold and were cheep, and parents thought them cute, and they were that, just not relieable. Now the one's you see in my photos do not use that speed reduction drive, but do share the original drive from the Silvine teakettle. the original all metal Teakettle B&O saddle tanker #25. This one just keeps on going.
Here is a photo of 60 year old all metal Teaketle that is just fine.
Here is the second of my mistery HO locomotives.
New Haven 0-4-0t saddle tank loco #60.
I have a lot of HO locomotives but I do suspect that this 0-4-0t saddle tank and another I have, another 0-4-0t saddle tank are the most valuable locomotives I have. They were both made in Japan by the New One Model Toy Works, some searching came up with this address.
#315 KOEMON-CHO ADACHI-KU, TOKYO JAPAN.
In 15 years of trying to find out who distributed these two tankers, I found out nothing about of who marketed them.
New One produced models in kit form and ready to run that were imported by Nat Polk of Polks Hobbies, Ho train Company, IMP, International Model Products. Another company was Silvine, who sold sectional track, switches, power supplies, and other HO products. The locmotive; New One made for Silvine was a 0-4-0t side tank Teakettle, B&O #25.
Does anyone know anything about the locomotive below.
It is B&O 0-4-0t saddle tank #62.